Bjork

Stop saying Arca ruined her music. Vulnicura was a genuinely good album and a satisfying development in her late style.
Utopia was just forgettable because she had no actual ideas when writing it

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yes.

who is saying this, in general vulnicura was well received and was seen as a "comeback". utopia was doomed from day 1 cause after getting all these new fans she released her most inaccessible album, and yes this includes medulla.

medulla is inaccessible, but beneath it all there are some pretty good songs. Utopia is near unsalvageable.

inaccessible doesn't mean it's bad, medulla is one of my faves. but with that being said utopia is pretty weak overall...i appreciate the album a tiny bit more after seeing her cornucopia concert but it's still a little questionable overall.

you're right but arca is a gross fag and i don't like him

I know, I just mean that eventually your time is rewarded with Medulla, which is not so much the case with Utopia, if anything that record has gotten worse with each listen for me.

I don't like trannies but I kind of like utopia desu

Utopia is her 2nd best album and AOTY 2017

Her best work was when she worked with Neelle Hooper again.

Perhaps the "early" Bjork as a solo artist was a product of her time because she was obviously influenced by the European electronica scene.

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It was Post that ruined her music.

Listened to post a few times. What’s next?

Heh

Vespertine was her last good album when she used to write good songs.

Any other opinion is tryhard shit there I said it.

ugh... I hate talking about Bjork, because there has always been this mass hysteria that she was too bizarre and wacky to understand. And then... she started actually being that. I am not that deep into her personal lore, but I always associate her spiral into a-melodic nonsense with her marriage to Matthew Barney.

Yeah... Vespertine was probably the last thing she did that could be considered beautiful. Melodic and interesting and delightful on the ears. Aurora almost makes me cry, it is so wonderful.

Medulla was okay... I don't agree with the decision to only use human voices, but the way it is woven together is fascinating, and there is still the bones of a good Pop album underneath. Anything after that... weirder and weirder.

I hope she is happy with what she is doing, at least.

um... Homogenic is amazing. I don't know if you have heard it... Also Vespertine. Also Selmasongs. Also Medulla

The music behind the vocals on the first track of Utopia is literally an already extant Arca track just verbatim

Biophilia is decent, Crystalline is fantastic, that album is honestly more interesting to me than Vespertine which is super overrated

this thread made me look up some of her new stuff. I am going to give some of this a listen. Lionsong is pretty awesome

I don't think it's very tryhard to be able to appreciate the strings and vocals on Stonemilker (opener of Vulnicura).
While I get your point that her later albums are less accessible and hardcore Bjork fans who think that people who don't like them are dumb and can be seen as tryhards, the latter half of her discography is generally solid.
Medulla is actually difficult for a mainstream listener, but when you give it time, Where is the Line, Vokuro, Oceania, Desired Constellation, Who is It, and Triumph of a heart are some of her best songs. I won't say anything about Volta because I've only listened to it once. (I think it's pretty good, though) Biophilia is maybe her most inventive album but I'll give you that it's not the most accessible or immediately catchy album. While I think it's great, I don't come back to it often. I might say that someone that says this is their favorite Bjork album is probably a tryhard piece of shit. Vulnicura as I already said is very plainly beautiful as it showcases very good harmony on most of the tracks between the strings and Bjorks voice. I also find the songwriting to be some of her best since Vespertine, but that's probably in large part due to the emotion inherent to the subject of the album.
I have mixed feelings on Utopia because while some of the songs are genuinely great (The first three, Saint, Utopia, and maybe some others that don't come to mind) the album drags and has a lot of lackluster filler tracks.

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going through her Wikipedia page, her discography is shorter than i remember it. I mean, 11 albums is a lot, but I sort of inserted more, in my head. I think it is because of the huge gaps between releases, and how her whole presentation changed with every time. Like, there were years where she looked like her Medulla album, you know? And since I have followed her from the beginning, I felt, very strongly, every little shift in her style.

Vespertine is incredibly beautiful, but with music box sounds and weird glitchy music, it was a serious departure from her electronic pop music of the first three albums. Even so, it still sounded a little like her. Medulla, less so, and Drawing Restraint 9 was just noise.

I think the through line was her fascination with weirdly broken melodies. that 4/4 song structure is fucking GONE. it is interesting, but the further she gets from that structure, the harder it gets to listen to. Volta was overindulgent and bad. Biophilia was... a lot of sound that came out of my speakers and I don't know what was happening...

Vulnicura sounds good. Its like she has mastered whatever weird shit she was messing around with. And, there is a sound that I associate with her: strings, little glitches, and deep bass. That sound is back. Homogenic and Vespertine are back.

don't know about Utopia. I will get to that one, later

Vulnicura is great, Utopia is meh. Medúlla is one of her best

Never really bothered to go back to Utopia after a couple listens. Definitely could've used some paring down. Vulnicura is in the upper half of her discog though, I rank it higher than Vespertine.

Vespertine > Homogenic > Vulnicura.

That being said she perfected a style in Vulnicura and Arca helped A LOT to do this, Utopia is just boring but i theres love in my heart even for Volta (i preffer the live as everyone tho)

she was never great

No, her run of records from Post to Medulla is pretty fucking great. She really had it going for about a decade there.

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